Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 228

After Chu Xiangqian separated from his immediate leader, he was still thinking about the big leader in charge of foreign affairs, who actually knew about his affairs.

The more I thought about it, the more excited I felt, and then I felt an urge to do something for the mainland.

Fortunately, after half an hour of cool breeze, I finally calmed down.

At this time, I want to help the mainland, one is food, and the other is foreign exchange.

These two points are not difficult for me, but if I want to mobilize food on a large scale, the biggest problem is how to do it without anyone noticing.

After thinking about it all night, he couldn't come up with a safe solution, so Chu Xiangqian could only take the time to let it go.

Small scale is not difficult. In fact, there are many animals, fruits, and big fish that are refreshed every day in the game, but if they are saved every month, they can only maintain the rations of hundreds of people at most.

This is a drop in the bucket.
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After staying in the capital for another 3 days, Chu Xiangqian had already locked the newly refreshed white tiger in the Xinshou Village in a special iron cage.

During this period, Xue Jianguo first gave himself 25 large yellow croakers, 10 taels each, worth more than 5 Hong Kong dollars.

I also successfully saw the 300 kilograms of three kinds of jade.

Just how to transport it to Hong Kong Island is a bit troublesome.

Chu Xiangqian wanted to take it away by himself, but unfortunately he didn't see the foreign exchange, so how could he give these jades to himself first?

Then I realized that this was a disguised reminder to myself to return to Hong Kong Island quickly and do business.

Chu Xiangqian was not so obedient. In the past three days, he took Xue Jinglan, rode two bicycles, and traveled around with food for a day.

The next night I took her to the movies again.

And the next morning, he played a friendly match against Qin Huairu again.

By the way, I also got 5 landscape paintings painted by Mr. Li Keran in the 40s.

The gold certificate increased by 117 points, and the aperture of Xinshou Village expanded by 1.17 meters, exceeding 60 meters for the first time.

Chu Xiangqian was overjoyed, and directly rewarded Qin Huairu with the meridian dredging technique.

In the afternoon, I went to play games with Lou Xiaoe again

As for the deerskin donkey-hide gelatin, after a full 24 hours of cooking, the three pots in the restaurant will automatically extinguish the flame.

Chu looked forward and knew that this was a system reminder that the quality of the buckskin donkey-hide gelatin had reached its limit.

With one collection technique, you can easily collect 200 pieces, which is 20 kilograms of quality 10 donkey-hide gelatin.

After three days, the warehouse already contained 80 kilograms of top-quality donkey-hide gelatin and 99 pieces of second-grade donkey-hide gelatin.

For Xue Jinglan's family of four women, 4 catties and 40 yuan were left.

In the two courtyards of Maoer Hutong and Shatou Street, two boxes were left each, that is, Qin Huairu and Lou Xiaoe each had a catty.

In the end, I was worried that the two women would be hungry, so I planned to leave 200 catties of chestnuts and 50 catties of food coupons in the two yards.

But after thinking about it, Lou Xiao'e has never been short of food in the past few years.

For Qin Huairu's side, there is actually no need to worry about it.

After giving her ten skinned hares and handing them over to the aunt at the scrap collection station, it was inevitable for Qin Huairu to enter the collection station.

Coupled with the private money saved, this girl basically can't go hungry.

However, after giving her another lesson the next day, Chu Xiangqian still took out a small yellow croaker.

After Qin Huairu took it, she cried so sadly that Chu Xiangqian thought she was worried that he would not want her anymore.

Unexpectedly, the woman said that with this gold bar, she would no longer have to worry about Jia Dongxu divorcing her, and she would become helpless in the end.

Now that I have confidence in my heart, my energy and energy are different.

After pestering Chu Xiangqian for a big fight, and then being on a business trip with him, she was just full of reluctance, but did not reveal too much negative emotion.

Lou Xiao'e was even simpler. As soon as this woman heard that she was going on a business trip, while Xu Damao was going to work, she took all the gold bars, jewelry, etc. hidden at home in batches out of the courtyard in batches and handed them to Chu Xiangqian who was waiting outside. , moved to the yard on Beach Street to hide.

This made Chu Xiangqian sigh with emotion that once a woman changes her mind, she is sometimes more decisive than a man.
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On the fourth day, I returned to the forest farm with a lot of things. First, I paid homage to my father, and then had lunch in the forest farm.

While chatting with the second and third uncles, the team leader Qin Dakui, as expected, brought accountant Jiang to the door.

After some politeness, Uncle Qin hesitated for a long time before saying, "Moving forward, several households in the village are already starving. If you have the ability, please help."

After speaking, he took out a box from the cloth bag he brought with him.

Chu Xiangqian saw at a glance that the writing on the box was in German.

When Uncle Qin opened it, he saw three watches and a Ruger P08 inside.

While Chu Xiangqian was excited, he also looked at Uncle Qin curiously.

Although the Luger P08 is not highly rated on the battlefield, because it has too many precision and small parts, sand, gravel and mud will cause various problems with this gun.

But just like precision watches, this gun is in the collection world, that is the existence of NO1.

Even if it is auctioned on Hong Kong Island in this era, it can easily sell for thousands of dollars.

After decades, hundreds of thousands of dollars can be casual.If the maintenance is excellent, 200 million is not uncommon.

Chu Xiangqian took the gun and wanted to take it apart to have a look, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it.

Only after checking whether it can be used, he smiled and said to Uncle Qin, "How many catties of food stamps do you want to exchange for this gun?"

Uncle Qin hesitated for a few seconds and scratched his head. In fact, he didn't know how much it was worth.

Thinking about the three watches I picked up from the officers of the Guo Party, they should be able to exchange a lot of food today, so I said, "How about you give me 100 catties of food stamps?"

Chu Xiangqian nodded without thinking, but said, "I'll give you 100 catties of dried wolf meat. Whether you eat it yourself or exchange it for food is up to you."

Qin Dakui and Accountant Jiang were ecstatic, and the second and third uncles on the side also nodded.

In their view, Chu Xiangqian clearly wanted to help the forest farm.

This one hundred catties of jerky can be exchanged for food in the commune, at least for 250 catties of white flour.

If it was last year, 300 catties of flour could be exchanged.

It's a pity that white flour is also in short supply now.

If you want to change stick noodles and millet, seven to eight hundred catties should be fine.

Uncle Qin quickly thanked him, then took out the three watches, and looked at Chu Xiangqian expectantly.

Chu Xiangqian didn't talk too much. He took a look and found that these three were Lange watches, but two of them were ordinary watches. After looking at them for a few times, Chu lost interest. Can't sell for a big price.

So his attention is all on the last Lange pilot watch.

After looking at it for a while, Chu Xiangqian looked up at Qin Dakui, "Master, where did you get this watch?"

Qin Dakui hesitated for a while, and was about to speak, but Chu Xiangqian waved his hand, "Forget it, if you don't want to talk, I'll just pretend I don't know."

After thinking about it, Chu Xiangqian put away his watch and p08, "I'll go to the mountain later, if I'm lucky, I should be able to get a wild boar tomorrow morning.

Just think of it as my thank you for helping me take care of my father's funeral last year. "

Qin Dakui and Accountant Jiang glanced at each other. Chu Xiangqian had repaid this favor last year. If he still said that now, any fool would know that he was a resident of the same village who took care of the forest farm.

The second uncle and the third uncle opened their mouths, sighed at last, and didn't say much.

Just let Chu Xiangqian be careful, and then ask Second Aunt to prepare some dry food.

When Chu Xiangqian was about to set off, Uncle Qin, accountant Jiang, and five or six middle-aged heads of the village came over with several long guns.

"Go forward, you must have a handy gun when you go into the mountains at night. Here are all the long guns hidden in the village."

Chu Xiangqian nodded, secretly thinking that people really can't be underestimated, they are all three-eighth big cover.

In other words, there are at least five or six households in the village who are headed, and there is a high probability that they beat the little devils back then.

For this alone, Chu Xiangqian was willing to help the village more.

I chose a gun with the best bolt action, and loaded a large number of 6.5mm rifle ammunition.

He also took the shell gun that the second uncle insisted on giving him, put on his back a bag with Erhe noodles steamed buns, and set off.
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A group of people watched Chu Xiangqian walking farther and farther alone, and couldn't help but worry and said, "Qianqian didn't bring Da Zhuang and Hong Niu back this time, should we call him back tomorrow or wait a few days to enter the mountain? "

The second uncle sighed, "I said this just now, but this kid didn't listen."

The third uncle also showed an anxious expression, and even scolded directly.

But the two of them were actually the least worried. Chu Xiangqian just made an excuse and said that he knew a valley that was a wild boar nest last year.

It only takes about two hours to walk there.

But now it was only afternoon, and there were still about three hours before Riju, so the two of them felt free to let him go.

Seeing this, the others became more and more grateful.

After Chu Xiang went to the mountain, he naturally found a place and went directly to Xinshou Village.

Wild boars have spawned in the hills north of the village, although not every time they can attract that wild boar from outside the circle of light.

But in the past few days, two ends have been hunted.

In addition to the 400-jin wild boar stored in the warehouse last year, there is no need to go to the mountains to suffer.

After sleeping in the guest room of the restaurant in Xinshou Village, after waking up at three o'clock in the morning, Chu Xiangqian felt refreshed.

All the energy spent on the two women in the past few days recovered all at once.

Ride on the red rabbit, circle around, and wipe out all the spawned wild monsters, fruits, and big fish.

Only then did I have the time to take three watches and P08 to the blacksmith shop and jewelry store, and spent 4 gold coupons to repair all the watches and pistols.

Immediately, the three watches and the P08 seemed brand new.

Not to mention exchanging 100 catties of wolf jerky and a wild boar for these things, Chu Xiangqian was willing to give two or three times as much meat as just a handful of P08.

Looking at his watch, the time was just before 4 in the morning, so he simply rode a red rabbit to practice equestrianism.

Then practice riding and shooting.

Archery on horseback is not a big problem, but the accuracy of shooting a gun on horseback is a bit touching.

Fortunately, Chu Xiangqian was in a good mood, so he treated it as a game, but actually had a great time playing it.

In the morning, when the sky was bright, Chu Xiangqian left Xinshou Village and picked up a big wild boar of about 350 centimeters and carried it on his shoulders.

I planned to test how strong my physical strength was, but I walked all the way for 3 hours, and I was just panting.

At around 9 o'clock in the morning, as soon as I walked back to the hillside outside the village, there were five and six half-year-olds and two middle-aged men shouting and rushing towards me.

Seeing the big wild boar on Chu Xiangqian's shoulders, everyone blushed with excitement and stammered.

Last night, the village discussed that when Chu Xiangqian really got back a wild boar, he would send it to the commune in exchange for food.

The food exchanged at that time will be shared equally by the whole village according to the head.

That is to say, every one of the hundreds of people in the village can get a small amount of white flour that is less than ten catties.

If it is replaced with stick noodles or millet, it will be twenty or thirty catties.

Save some food, it can last for more than a month.

In addition to the rations that were already there, the pressure was much less all of a sudden.

The two uncles from the same village planned to take the wild boar and carry it back with five or six and a half children.

Chu Xiangqian shook his head, everyone was hungry, and their physical strength must not keep up.

In case of injury, even a sprain is a burden, so it's better to carry it back by yourself.

When we arrived in the village, a half-child had already run back to inform everyone.

When Chu Xiangqian came back with a wild boar on his back, even the old men cheered.

With this incident, one day in the future, if Chu Xiangqian arranges a few people to come to the village to reform, or young people come to the village to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, at least no one will embarrass them, not to mention that everyone in the village will take care of those few people.

This can be regarded as an initial investment, not to mention that I got three watches and a Luger pistol, and I didn't suffer at all.
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After noisy for half an hour, Qin Dakui personally set up the carriage and planned to take people and wild boars to the commune to exchange food.

Chu Xiangqian thought for a while, and simply followed him back to the city.

At around 10:[-] in the morning, as soon as he got on his bicycle, the little girl Ai Qiu rushed over crying, hugging Chu Qianqian's leg, clamoring to follow him into the city.

Chu Xiangqian didn't mind taking his little sister to the city for a few days. When he was going back to Hong Kong Island, he could just ask Aiguo and Aimin to send his little sister back to the forest farm.

It's a pity that the second uncle and the second aunt were not willing to let Aiqiu mess around, so they hugged her and smoked a few times.

While the little girl was crying more and more, the second uncle hurriedly said to Chu Xiangqian, "Okay, don't be fooled by this little girl.

Believe it or not, after you leave, within half an hour, she will find other little girls to play by herself. "

Chu Xiangqian, who was still soft-hearted, couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

I took Aiqiu from the second aunt's arms, "Little sister, next time the elder brother comes back, I will bring you candy and preserved fruit, okay?"

As soon as she heard that there was candy to eat, Aiqiu stopped crying as expected.

Seeing this, the others couldn't help but look enviously at Chu Xiangqian and Aiqiu in his arms.

After coaxing the little girl, Chu Xiangqian rode his bicycle and set off with the carriage driven by Qin Dakui himself, carrying the three-bazai that he had brought into the mountain on his back.

When he arrived at the commune, Chu Xiangqian refused the invitation of Uncle Qin and other uncles from the same village to treat him to a meal in the commune.

Just ride your bike and go.

After leaving the commune, I found a place to store the gun in the warehouse of Xinshou Village. I hurried all the way, and in less than 2 hours, I arrived in Beijing.

Back in the courtyard, the neighbors in the yard saw that he was carrying a bag yesterday and said he was going to the forest farm, but he came back today empty-handed.

Can't help being completely disappointed.

Chu Qianqian went home, washed his face, and entered the third uncle's house. Not long after, the first and second uncles were called over by Yan Jiefang.

Seeing Chu Xiangqian smoking silently, the two knew that there must be no food in the mountains.

Chu Xiangqian distributed two cigarettes to the two, and said with a wry smile, "A few households in the forest farm are now out of food, let alone in the mountains.

I asked a few old contacts, all the wild game they got now, I kept it as a food reserve, and I didn't plan to sell it at all. "

It's been a week since Chu Xiangqian came back, and he already knew that although the life of the residents in the yard was a little harder than last year, it was not so bad that they couldn't survive.

But it's true that the big guy has lost a lot of weight.

Even Jia Zhang, who was fat and round-faced in TV dramas, has lost a lot of weight now.

On the contrary, Qin Huairu these days, whenever he is in Mao'er Hutong's courtyard, there is always meat to eat and enough millet porridge to drink.

Adding deer donkey-hide gelatin to make up the body, it looks ruddy instead.And the problem of cold hands and feet in the past has also improved a lot.

Chu Xiangqian didn't know until he asked the old Chinese medicine doctor that deer donkey-hide gelatin is gentle, not as easy to get angry as donkey-hide gelatin, and there are many fewer taboos.

The effect is also more comprehensive, not only warming the kidney and nourishing essence, nourishing qi and yang, but also nourishing yin and blood, and stopping bleeding.

And donkey glue is to replenish blood and stop bleeding, nourish yin and moisten dryness.

Best of all, deer glue is easier to absorb.

In modern terms, deer are the mammals whose genes are most similar to the human body, so they are naturally easier to be absorbed and utilized by the human body.

After eating hot deer glue and red dates twice, Qin Huairu's complexion not only improved a lot, but also his skin became rosy and shiny.

But on Jia Dongxu's side, he looked thinner and thinner, and his face was still a little blue.

One can tell at a glance that this guy has been tossing around with his good friends.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care, anyway, if something happened to him due to weakness, it would have nothing to do with him.

When the three uncles saw what he said, they couldn't help but sighed sadly.

Yi Zhonghai asked again without giving up, "Go forward, is there really nothing you can do?"

Chu Xiangqian shook his head, "I brought back the food, but I didn't give it to everyone for free. If I can get chestnuts and other dry goods from the mountains, I will have a good reputation, and fools will not do it.

But there was such a shortage of food in the mountains that even poisonous potatoes were dried into powder and cooked to satisfy my hunger. I really couldn't get food from them. "

At this point, Yi Zhonghai could only give up.

But Yan Fugui and Liu Haizhong knew that Chu Xiangqian was not telling the truth.

In other words, there may be no chestnuts and dry goods in the mountains, but there must be prey such as pheasants and hares.

Otherwise, where did Chu Xiangqian get the pheasant, hare and dried meat from to exchange copper coins with the two of them a few days ago?
But the two of them couldn't talk about it, and they didn't dare to say it.

Even thinking about it carefully, it was a good thing for the two of them that Chu Xiangqian kept the matter of the wild game from hiding.

In this difficult period of food shortage for the whole people, it is the business to take care of one's own family first.

Chu Xiangqian returned to his home, and explained to Aiyuan that he was on a business trip again after two days.

Aiyuan's heart tightened, and she hurriedly asked, "Brother, you've only been back for more than a week, why are you going out again?"

Chu Xiangqian pretended to be helpless and said, "I have received orders from above, so I can only obey them. Fortunately, the place I am going to this time is not considered dangerous. I will try to come back within two or three months."

"It takes so long?" Aiyuan immediately became sulky and muttered, "If my man goes on business trips every three days in the future, I'll kick him right away."

Chu Xiangqian rolled his eyes at what he said.

"Okay, I'm just telling you about this. No matter how much you mutter, you can't change the order from above. Go back to sleep early."

Aiyuan curled her lips, but went back to the inverted room without any further fuss.

Chu Xiangqian went to the backyard, called Aiguo and Aimin, and asked them to ask for a day off tomorrow and bring a hundred catties of dried wolf meat back to the forest farm.
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The next morning, Chu Xiangqian went out first. When Aiguo and Aimin arrived at the station, Chu Xiangqian had already filled two cloth bags with 100 catties of dried wolf meat and handed them over to them.

After watching the bus leave the station, he rode his bicycle, found an empty alley, took out ten dried fish, put them in a basket, and went to Jiaodaokou street.

Before entering the yard, he was stopped by the sharp-eyed old man Sun.

"Boy Chu, is it really you?"

Chu Xiangqian hadn't seen old man Sun for more than two months, and he was also a little excited.

He hurriedly took out a pack of red peonies from his pocket, "Master, long time no see."

Old man Sun took the cigarette and continued to ask, "Where have you been for so long? Also, I heard from the director that you were transferred to another unit by your superiors. How is your new job?"

Chu shrugged forward, using the excuse of being disciplined, but old man Sun immediately changed the subject, only talking about household chores and trivial matters at work.

On the contrary, it saved Chu Xiangqian's tongue, and he didn't need to make up nonsense to fool him.

After chatting for a while, old man Sun let him go, "If you want to find the director, you have to go to the district. If there is something wrong, you can go to Chen Huaili yourself."

Chu Qianqian nodded and arranged for Xue Jinglan to work in the street archives department. Not only was Xue Jinglan willing, but the four members of the Xue family, the old lady, and the mother-in-law had no objections.

Xue Hongmei was even more assured that this would happen, and she promised again and again that she would take good care of Lan Lan.

Chu Xiangqian came here today to help his future daughter-in-law establish a good relationship with everyone on the street.

The most direct way, of course, is to send some meat over.

Seeing that Chu Xiangqian brought 10 dried fish, at least 5 or 6 catties a piece, old man Sun suddenly smiled.

Saying goodbye to Uncle Sun, Chu Xiangqian entered the street office building and was immediately surrounded by former colleagues.

In addition to saying hello and reminiscing about the past, the most talked about food is related to food.

Chu Xiangqian didn't hide it, saying that his daughter-in-law-to-be planned to transfer to work in the street archives office, and the big guy got 1 approvals when he heard it.

In this way, even if the food in the street canteen in the future cannot be compared to when Chu Xiangqian is still there, there will be a meal of braised wild pork with chestnuts or shredded radish and tons of big fish every day.

But as long as his daughter-in-law is still working in the street, he can finally get some meat through his daughter-in-law.

This is much better than two corn buns, a bowl of cabbage, or shredded radish all day long.

Xu Guiju and Aunt Xu, the rare organizational cadres, took Chu Qianqian directly to the administrative office and found the unit chief Duan Jidong.

After listening to Xu Guiju's explanation, Lao Duan almost jumped up with joy, grabbed Chu Qianqian's hand and said, "Xiao Chu, please tell me your wife's name and address first.

I'll write you a job application right now, take it back and ask your wife to sign it, and ask her to report to her aunt, Comrade Xue Hongmei, tomorrow. "

After finishing speaking, he looked at Xu Guiju and said, "Sister Xu, can you do me a favor by reporting the matter in the district?"

Xu Guiju immediately nodded and said, "Okay, tomorrow I will report to my ex-wife, and I will take her file to the district to register."

Xu Guiju and Lao Duan are not stupid, and many people in the street already knew about Chu Xiangqian's dating with Miss Xue's family.

And as long as it is mentioned in the submitted information that Xue Jinglan can get unplanned food, the district custodian immediately agrees.

(End of this chapter)